Liber Null & Psychonaut by Peter J. Carroll [Pre-order | Group Buy]

A blunt, laboratory-style manual for Chaos Magick: belief as a tool, results over dogma.

Background / Overview
This combined edition brings together two foundational texts of Chaos Magick. Liber Null establishes the core operating system: entering gnosis, directing attention, banishing, building and firing sigils, and approaching ritual as a set of flexible technologies rather than fixed traditions. Psychonaut expands the frame—servitors and egregores, paradigm shifting, meta-magick, and experiment design that treats the self as both magician and instrument. The prose is spare and practical; the aim is measurable change in reality and in the practitioner. If you’re streamlining your craft, unlearning inherited rules, or building a results-led practice, this is the spine that keeps its promises.

This Weiser Classics edition is a thoroughly revised republication of Liber Null and Psychonaut, first published by Weiser in 1987, and includes a new foreword by Ronald Hutton, a leading authority on modern witchcraft and paganism.

What’s inside (highlights)

• States of gnosis (inhibitory vs. excitatory) and why attention is the real fuel

• Banishing, vacuity, and constraint design for clean operations

• Sigil methods (statement crafting, firing, forgetting, and logging)

• Servitors/egregores: creation, tasking, containment, and dissolution

• Paradigm shifting: using and discarding belief deliberately

• Ethics, record-keeping, and the ruthless honesty of “what produced a result?”

• Essays on meta-magick, group work, and the psychology of enchantment

Who this serves

• Practitioners who prefer experiments over lineage, and clarity over ornament

• Readers building a lean daily practice or rebooting after burnout

• Students of witchcraft/occult studies who want a primary source on chaos methods

Why it matters now
Chaos Magick’s core insight—that belief is a strategic variable—makes this book a precision tool for modern practitioners navigating mixed currents, secular spaces, and saturated information. It gives you language, procedure, and a way to evaluate your work without outsourcing authority.

Tone & readability
Direct, unapologetic, and concise. Ideal for note-takers and self-directed learners; it rewards rereads and rigorous journaling.

Curator’s Note
This is one of my personal Chaos Magick favorites and a staple in my library, as a Chaos Magick practitioner. It’s the book I return to when I need to clear noise, tighten boundaries, and remember that craft is measured by outcomes—not aesthetics.

Shipping / Batch Note (Group-Buy)
Pre-order via monthly group-buy. Group Buy Cutoff: the 25th of every month (11:59 PM PHT). If we meet the minimum of 4 orders of any book or deck available on Group Buy, we source together. (Meaning we wait for others like you to order too!) Arrival is 3 weeks after cutoff; we dispatch on the nearest Thursday. If MOQ isn’t met, (1) your order will be cancelled and refunded using the same payment method you used or (2) you can choose to have your order moved to next cut off or (3) you can select a replacement/ alternative from in-stock items.

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Specs

• Edition: Weiser Classics, paperback

• Author: Peter J. Carroll

• Language: English

• Publisher: Weiser Books